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By: Vince Matev

September 13, 2022 12:46 pm

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SUSE Rancher and Komodor – Continuous Kubernetes Reliability

SUSE guest blog authored by: Oren Ninio, Head of Solution Architecture at Komodor The Kubernetes Landscape With 96% of organizations either using or evaluating Kubernetes and over 7 million developers using Kubernetes around the world, according to a recent CNCF report, it’s safe to say that Kubernetes is eating up the world and has […]

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By: Colin Hamilton

April 17, 2017 12:11 pm

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Streamline Your Root Cause Analysis

Hey everyone, it's Colin Hamilton here again. I'm one of the Linux Support Engineers on the SUSE team. A really common request that will come into our queue is an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for an unexpected reboot of the server. I've noticed it can sometimes be frustrating for customers when the root cause takes […]

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By: SUSE

February 25, 2016 12:33 pm

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How I stumbled on unbootable OS thanks to the symlink

Hello World, Today I was asked by my colleague to help him with an unbootable SLES11 which was just recently upgraded to SP3 ... Well, first I thought that this problem will be simple to solve as common initrd problems are quite easy to break, but I've learned a lesson ... First I quickly checked /etc/sysconfig/kernel and […]

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By: William Vera

May 8, 2014 2:12 pm

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How to know what ESX version is running on your VM

This article describes how to discover the ESX version when we have only access to the VM guest. When troubleshooting issues, I sometimes need to know the ESX version when my VM's are running, but in the classic scenario where we don't have any type of privileges, it is pretty hard to get that information. […]

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By: William Vera

April 23, 2014 8:40 am

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Troubleshooting SLES VM Memory Issues

This document describes how to troubleshoot SLES Virtual Machine's memory issues quickly to get ahead of problems and avoid bigger issues. When we use a lot of VM's it's pretty hard to monitor their health in the ESX level. If we are lucky maybe we have access to vSphere to see the status. Yes I […]

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By: Marita Werner

September 16, 2013 12:11 am

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PartnerNet: cool tool but how do I get in?

This summer I guided several of our new partners through the PartnerNet registration process and could see that it is quite a hurdle to finish registration. Now I want to give you a short introduction to that process and make clear that it is a 2-step process. First: go to PartnerNet and click on „[…]

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By: William Vera

April 16, 2013 3:56 pm

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Running "crash" to analyze dump data on SLES11

Crash is a powerful tool that will analyze core dumps after crashing, to help you with troubleshooting or forensics analysis. Coredump files after an incident are stored in: /var/crash/$DATE There is a README file in this path with basic info of the core dump file: sles-beta:/var/crash/2013-03-27-10:32 # cat README.txt Kernel crashdump ---------------- Crash time […]

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By: bbendily

August 4, 2009 11:59 am

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Upgrading DHCP

Recently I upgraded the default DHCPd RPM from Novell to a direct download from ISC.org. When i did that I had problems with the line: option slp-service-scope true "default'; I had to add: option slp-service-scope code 79 = {boolean, text}; before this line: option slp-service-scope true "default"; That maybe something Novell changed […]

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By: dmair

April 16, 2009 8:39 am

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iproute2 Traffic Control

Linux has very cool network filtering capabilities, I've written about them in a couple of articles. One of the comments made about the first article was this: "...add advanced routing (iproute2) in order to handle bandwith resources" I didn't know anything about iproute2 then. I did a little research before writing my follow-up iptables […]

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